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A Levee Policy for the National Flood Insurance Program (1982) / Chapter Skim
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'INTRODUCTION'
Pages 1-4

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... From priorities set according to a community's existing floodplain development and future development potential, a detailed engineering study is made to establish 100-year flood elevations and assemble risk information necessary for floodplain management and the determination of actuarial flood insurance rates. This information is published on Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs)
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... Land developers began requesting FLA to provide standards that levees must meet in order for the special flood hazard designation to be removed from an area. Various groups were constructing 100-year design levees for the sole purpose of freeing property from the floodplain management, lender notification, and insurance purchase requirements under the NFIP.
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... Army Corps of Engineers nonfederal dam inspection program suggest that a large percentage of private or locally built levees as well as dams are or can be expected to be poorly designed and maintained. Because of these concerns, FEMA contracted with the National Research Council to recommend provisions for a comprehensive levee policy for use in administering floodplain management, insurance, and risk mapping aspects of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)
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... INTERIM FEMA POLICY ON LEVEES In February 1981 FEMA established an interim policy on levees for the NFIP. This policy and subsequently developed policy criteria are included in Appendix B
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Key Terms

  • flood hazard
  • special flood
  • floodplain management
  • national flood
  • lender notification

  • flood losses
  • flood elevations
  • flood damage
  • flood control
  • insurance program

  • insurance act
  • insurance purchase
  • crown elevations
  • purchase requirements
  • future flood

  • flood plain
  • flood disaster
  • flood elevation
  • purchase flood
  • provide flood

  • flood risk
  • flood levels
  • flood hazards
  • major flood
  • define flood

  • actuarial flood
  • establishing flood
  • annual flood
  • federal flood
  • called flood


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